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Shall I give him a new tragedy of la Harpe's, he will yawn; an opera of Marmontel, he will go to sleep. Heavens! how unfortunate I am!" "Really, my dear," replied the marechale, "I cannot advise you; but I can quote a powerful example. In such a case madame de Pompadour would have admitted a rival near the throne."
He supped with the Duchess of Luxembourg, and heard a reading of La Harpe's Barmecides. It was high treason in this circle to frequent the rival salon of Mademoiselle Lespinasse, but either the law was relaxed in the case of foreigners, or else Burke kept his own counsel.
They then severed the head from the body, and stuck it upon a pole where the road crosses the creek, from which the place was then named and is yet called Harpe's Head. Thus perished one of the boldest and most noted freebooters that has ever appeared in America.
She looked, he thought, like a terrified servant that has broken the cut-glass berry bowl. Yet subconsciously he was aware that he was wounded deeper than his vanity by her disregard of his wishes. "I insist upon an answer." "I I haven't any answer except that that I'm sorry." "Did you drink at Dr. Harpe's suggestion?" he demanded in growing wrath.
Harpe's illy-concealed venom and resented it in his quiet way, as she had thought, that this seemed like disloyalty, and in the first shock of bewilderment and pain Essie Tisdale was conscious only that the one person in all the world upon whom she had felt she could count was being taken from her.
Harpe's face had hardened slightly at the answer. "It's your own affair, naturally," she had returned indifferently; "but I'll have to find accomodations elsewhere. If living in the same house would injure me professionally, merely a boarder, you can guess what it will do to you in a business way, and," she had added significantly, "socially." Mrs. Terriberry had looked startled.
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Some time he meant to ask Grandmother Kunkel why she so resented Dr. Harpe's presence. Dr. Harpe was seated in a porch chair, with one leg thrown over the arm, swinging her dangling foot, when Mrs. Symes appeared. She turned her head and eyed her critically, as she stood in the doorway. "Gus, you're gettin' to be a looker." Mrs. Symes smiled with pleasure at the compliment.
Stop botherin' yore fool head about me and my doings, and think of something worth while for instance, Jack Harpe." "Then what?" "No wonder they call you Bull. That's all you are, beef to the heels and no more sense than a calf. Listen, Jack Harpe's respectable, ain't he? Or he aims to be, which is the same thing. Anyway, he's swelling round here like a poisoned pup and don't know us a-tall.
He hoped that all the boys of the 88 outfit would be at the ranch. He hoped that Luke Tweezy would be there, too. Lanpher and Tweezy together, the pups. "Fat Jakey Pooley's li'l playmates," he muttered and swore again heartily. He understood now the true reason for Jack Harpe's lack of activity.
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